Our Legal Team

Dan has extensive trial and arbitration experience. He applies that experience, along with broad legal knowledge, business judgment and an appreciation of the costs and benefits of litigation to achieve the best outcomes for his clients. He has conducted trials, motions, appeals and arbitrations in disputes over shareholder oppression, joint ventures, failed real estate transactions, government procurement, the seizure of diplomatic and state property, construction projects, commercial leasing, product liability, estates and fraud. Dan has appeared at all levels of court in Ontario and at various administrative tribunals.

A sample of Dan’s work includes:

• Successfully representing a large government contractor in multiple arbitrations relating to obligations of disclosure and good faith in a tenderingor RFP process;

• Arbitrating the issue of misappropriation of approximately $13 million of missing artwork, and recovering over $12 million of that artwork by obtaining an Anton Piller order (a civil search warrant);

• Representing the majority shareholders of an aerospace company in oppression proceedings at arbitration and on appeal of the arbitral decision;

• Representing the majority shareholders of a large concrete company in a contentious shareholder dispute;

• Representing minority shareholders at trial in a dispute regarding an international joint venture;

• Representing vendors and purchasers of real property on a number of summary judgment motions and appeals relating to failed agreements of purchase and sale;

• Enforcing easements, rights of partition and sale, and other property rights;

• Obtaining and resisting motions for certificates of pending litigation on real property; and

• Obtaining and resisting motions for Mareva injunctions (asset freezing orders).

Dan is a member of the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations and the Advocates Society. When he’s not working Dan is probably either parenting, playing some kind of sport or biking in the woods.